Technical requirements

You will require an AWS account with root access; not everything we will do in this chapter may be available in Free Tier, which means it may cost you a small amount to follow the hands-on sections. You will also require access to the AWS Command-Line Interface (CLI). The AWS guide at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-configure.html explains the steps required, but I will summarize them here:

1. Create an AWS account if you have not already done so.
2. Download the latest version of the AWS CLI from here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/welcome-versions.html#welcome-versions-v2.
3. Create an admin user: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_access-keys.html.
4. Create an access key for your administration user: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/getting-started_create-admin-group.html#getting-started_create-admin-group-cli.
5. Run the aws configure command to set up a profile...